Kerrys previous rounds of meetings with foreign ministers had been open to the press. And the meeting with the Saudi Foreign Minister should have been far less controversial than his meetings with foreign ministers in Asia where the North Korean crisis was still underway.

The meeting with the Saudi Foreign Minister should have been open to the press as well. But then suddenly, it wasnt.

A meeting Secretary of State John Kerry was to hold with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal was abruptly closed to press coverage Tuesday morning.

The State Department provided no reason for the change, which was announced just 15 minutes before the scheduled 10 A.M. session, but media reports have said that a Saudi national in the U.S. on a student visa is a person of interest to investigators probing the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

Apologies for short notice, the State Departments press office told reporters as it announced the change. A spokesperson did not immediately respond to a query about the closure of the meeting, which had been scheduled to include a so-called camera spray at the top of the session.

The Saudis tend to be aggressive in protecting their nationals, even when they are involved in terrorism. And Kerry clearly is trying to avoid any kind of public exchange or questions at the topic.

The abrupt shutdown suggests that the State Department left the window open as long as possible in the hopes that the Saudi national would become a non-issue. The shutdown suggests that whatever direction the FBI investigation is headed in, its people are unable to tell State that the Saudi national in custody is not a player. Otherwise Kerry could have easily shot down the question.

It also suggests that the Saudis might want to press Kerry privately on their usual agenda of exculpating Saudi Arabia for its terrorist backing and transferring over the Saudi national to their custody.

I bet his maximum eminence is sequestered in his office today too trying to figure out how to play the bombing into his anti gun and pro immigration actions. Yesterday morning he figured he had clear sailing on the second and was working around to the same with the first. He cannot even slip out now for a day at the links or someone will complain so he is trapped with the chabaca and biden for a whole day at least.

The abrupt shutdown suggests that the State Department left the window open as long as possible in the hopes that the Saudi national would become a non-issue. The shutdown suggests that whatever direction the FBI investigation is headed in, its people are unable to tell State that the Saudi national in custody is not a player. Otherwise Kerry could have easily shot down the question.

Pretty difficult to spin this differently...if it does turn out that this was a Saudi national then that alert citizen who apprehended him deserves a medal..not that he'll get it from the Obama administration...they would only have been too happy to blame it on the tea party.

The reason that suddenly the Admin/FBI is saying the Saudi student they suspect is no longer a person of interest is to give Obama breathing room to claim that the Boston “incident” is a terrorist attack. As long as there is no definitive link to Muzzies, Obama can feel free to call the attack terrorism in the national and international press without repercussions from his Arab regimes’ friends, as there is no definitive suspect. The Saudi student has had to be temporarily declassified as a suspect in order for Obama to accomplish this end.

The Arabs don’t want to hear in the public world media that they are responsible for terrorist attacks all over the globe, and particularly don’t want to hear it from Obama, whom they own starting years ago when they supported him through college, and to the present day when they basically contributed greatly to getting him hired as Prez by illegally funnelling money from rich Arabs overseas via Obama’s election website, where money was being laundered from illegal overseas sources left and right. They know this, he knows this, they own him. They could out him at any time. So he must kowtow to them, which isn’t hard for Obama to do as psychologically he is one of them anyhow.

Obama was taking flack from some of the U.S. media for not coming out in his first speech on the “incident” and calling it what it obviously was, a terrorist attack. So he had to go public to rectify this faux pas for public consumption (although it really was an intentional act by Obama of omitting the word terrorism). So, Obama and his minions (including the FBI higher ups, who are stoolies for Obama) opened a small window of opportunity for him to speak again and use the word terrorism in his comments without alienating his Arab overlords, as long as the actual suspect would remain vague (by claiming the Saudi student allegedly is not involved).

Machiavellian, but I smell a rat, and suspect that this is exactly what is happening. Word games of the first order by the masters of the art, the Obama Admin.

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posted on 04/16/2013 5:58:03 PM PDT
by flaglady47
(When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)

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